ESG & Impact
Commodity Backing, Impact & Member Value
Cooperative debt is judged on more than yield. This is what the listed instruments are secured against, which productive sectors receive the capital, and what that means for cooperative members.
Commodity Reserve Value
$5.00M
10 commodity-backed instruments
Producer Livelihoods Funded
18,580
estimated producer livelihoods supported
Productive Sectors
6
sectors receiving cooperative capital
Impact Instruments
10
listed, structured or matured
Capital Allocation By Sector
Real Asset Backing
ZIM-AGRI-DEB-2026
Maize intake contracts — 3,200 tonnes
COOP-GOLD-BOND-04
Gold offtake agreement with Fidelity Printers & Refiners
HOUSING-DEB-02
Serviced residential stands and bulk infrastructure
DAIRY-LIQ-01
Milk intake and chilling plant assets
FERT-PLACE-03
Blending plant capacity and fertiliser stock
TOBACCO-IDX-01
Tobacco floor sales proceeds — 1,900 contract hectares
LOGISTICS-FLEET-02
Fleet of 38 haulage rigs and escrow route contracts
MACADAMIA-LIST-06
640 hectares of producing macadamia orchards
SOLAR-IRRIG-01
Solar pumping plant and irrigated horticulture output
COTTON-GIN-05
Seed cotton intake and ginnery throughput
Member value at a cooperative is not captured by yield alone. CDEx reports the real asset base standing behind each instrument, because commodity-backed debt is what lets a cooperative raise capital without surrendering member control.
Capital that stays in the community
A debenture is borrowed money, not sold ownership. Members keep control of the cooperative while the issue is serviced from the activity it financed.
Backed by real production
CDEx prefers instruments secured against tangible intake, offtake or asset value, so repayment tracks the cooperative's actual trading cycle.
Measured in producer outcomes
The impact reported here is derived from live instrument data — what capital was raised, what it is secured against and which sectors receive it.